Captain Pedantic and the Scurvy Dogs, the English folk band I helped found in 1991 (?) played the first Sziget Fesztival on the  main stage in 1993, back when it was called Diaksziget (Student Island), and long before it became the insanely huge event it is now.  Even in 1993 people were calling it the “Woodstock of the East.” I feel very uncomfortable in crowds, and have therefore avoided the Sziget for many years, with the exception of helping out at the Vedegylet’s Fair Trade tent. For the last few years, Vedegylet’s campaign to promote Fair Trade products in Hungary has made an effort to set up stalls at most of the major summer festivals. Volunteers serve Fair Trade organic coffee and tea (from Treehugger Dan’s) around-the-clock, and you donate what you feel like. I volunteered at the stall this Saturday, so was lucky enough to be on hand to hear several local bands later in the afternoon. Everyone knows that I am a huge fan of The Random Chocolates, and they did not dissapoint. To quote from their webpage, “The Random Chocolates are so hot it's a wonder they don't melt on stage. Their unique brand of melodic pop is definitely candy to your ears. To hell with diets, this stuff is good for you. The three international band members; Michael Kentish (UK), Richard Adkin (Canada) & Dávid Asztalos (Hungary), combine their individual talents to bring a serious yet cheeky answer to the question of what music should you be listening to.” Besides their Myspace page they just put up a new webpage at http://www.therandomchocolates.com (scroll right). I met up with members of the band The Last Drops there, another one of my local favorites, and continued on with them to the Jazz Stage to catch the last end of Le Biskuit’s performance. What a surprise package! Even though I have known the lead singer, Andy Hefler, for a couple years, and the band has been performing for 9 years in Budapest, I have never heard about them. I am a huge fan of funk music and have been disappointed in the lack of funk bands or even clubs that play funk music in town. It has arrived! Andy Hefler (vocals), Fazekas Gergely (keyboards), Ságvári Bence (guitar), Baticz Csaba (guitar), Ságvári Ádám (bass guitar) and Mócz András (drums) make up Le Biskuit. I am not sure how often they play, but it is well worth catching them when they do. Andy is also a member, along with Ben and Alexis, of the English language improve theatre group Scallabouche.At the Fair Trade tent, one of the volunteers showed me his hobby of growing four-leaf clovers. Clovers with more than 3 leaves are a sign of mutation, often radioactive, but this guy has another method - he waters a patch of clovers with cola!